HOLY MACKEREL! You’re Going To Need A DRINK For This One

Now when I say STRONG, I mean, ALCOHOLIC… Because er, um, HO-LY [HOE-LEE] MACKEREL… This is about to get very interesting.

Ah…. Would you look at that… A Harvey Wallbanger… GOOD CHOICE!

That’ll FORK you up enough to have you DROOLING over the recipe I’m about to PLOP RIGHT ON YOUR PLATE.

But before I dish it out… Lemme just tell you that you can kinda, sorta, okay, TOTALLY…. Blame (or thank?) my friend Vianessa for this one**.

It’s obvious to me at this point that when one of my very best’s moves away from me (to friggin’ EYGPT of all places)… I tend to do even stranger than normal things… And well, “doing” this recipe MAY take the CAKE (although I did make a chicken smoothie before)…

But no, sorry if I just got you salivating over the thought of SPOONING some silky smooth cake if your mouth… Because this recipe ain’t no chocolate cake. It’s much creamier than cake. But it does smell rather fishy.

And THAT would be because the main ingredient is fish.

A pungent fish, I might add.

Now, why don’t you go on and take another generous SWIG of good ol’ Harvey there in front of you, puddin’!

As you can see, I am really trying to fluff you up.

Oh but wait, this recipe will do just that… So I can just quit trying right now.

For it’s FLUFFY MACKEREL PUDDING!

I knew you’d be “pudding” on your bib and lickin’ your lips for this one…

And you may need a lasagna pan because you’re going to want to make EXTRA!

GIVEAWAY ALERT:

So um, since you had to put up with that… And you’re probably going to have an insanely horrific hangover thanks to throwing back that Harvey Wallbanger… I thought I would make it up to you by hosting a GIVEAWAY for a VAYA TYFFYN LUNCH BOX (you know, those awesome, no-leak, stainless steel fashionable food totes I was telling all of you about last week)!!

Comments

I’m both honored and horrified…by the fact that this recipe actually looks good to me! I think it would totally work with tuna for a slightly less pungent option. And let it be known, I WILL be sending you all of the food pics and recipes from Egypt so you can make your own adaptions on the show…and maybe I’ll make a surprise appearance in a future episode 😉

OMG OMG OMG OMG! GIGI EATS EGYPTIAN!!! HECK YES – I love this! THIS is where our collaborations come into play, I am so stupidly pumped.
PS: I kinda love how you and I have similar palettes because if you watched the video (you have to watch the video, LOL)… You will know how I felt about this…… SITUATION.

hahaha! Yeahhhh in the video I definitely say, wellllll if you don’t do fish – then OBVIOUSLY this is not for you – hahahahaha! BUT I MEAN, you might be able to do CHICKEN – in fact, I feel like you DEFINITELY could and um, it might be even better!!!

Ugh. I am still dealing with NOT being near you either – it takes me a minute every day to get my shit together 🙁
PS: this recipe I feel like could be made with chicken and would probably be 50x better! hahahahahahaah! 😉 MAYBEEEEEEEEEE we can make it in November if…. Um, you still wanna come out?!

Well, I am not promoting this meal as a weight loss recipe – I am simply recreating something from weight watchers that sounded disgusting – lol!!! Anddddd I am right there with you, I don’t think the kids would eat it either – ha!

Ill try anything once, no drinks needed. I love fish, so as you say I might even like it, definitely intrigued. The oldest recipe I have is for a bread from my great great grandmother, who was actually alive until I was 4-5 yrs old. My great grandmother still makes it. I have never made it myself however, because I don’t really like it. Anyway love the apron.

OMG HOW OLD was your great great grandmother when she passed away? THAT is incredible!!!
I think you should make the bread with some modifications to make it Patrick Approved. Or just add mackerel, cause I mean, that’s just the starring ingredient that makes everything taste good, AMIRIGHT?!

ONG! What a funfilled post! I moved away from my bestie and it caused me to try some new things and made my family ask of O was okay. I will certainly add this to my Rolodex of recipes, and when I filling it, I will surprise my family, lol. My husband live mackerel.

Think I would definitely have to be drunk to make a recipe like this LOL. Your post cracked me up. I am the friend that moved away. I moved from one side of the country to the other. So not quite as far as Egypt but my friend and I try to keep in touch as much as we can.

Thanks to technology – keeping in touch is pretty easy these days!! I won’t lie – I was the friend that moved away at one point too, so I guess the tables are just turning on me now – ha! CHEERS to getting a little tipsy on this Tuesday, lol!

You look so strange in the dress GiGi! The girls need to breath lol. I’ve never had a Harvey Wallbanger, gotta check that drink out. I totally remember that chicken smoothie, it freaked me out but looked ok in the end. I don’t hate mackerel but mackerel pudding… I just don’t know about this one. OMG you like this??? Now I kinda want to try it.

HA! I will make you a little blow of mackerel pudding Mary 😉 … And I will wear this dress and serve it to you, just to creep you out even more, LMFAO!!!! I know, me in a dress – IT IS SO WEIRD. I CANT STAND IT!!! (But Landon LOVES IT – haahhaha)

Sounds like an interesting recipe, but how cool that you found these vintage recipes! I am a vegetarian, so the recipe sounds a bit unappealing, but creative. Probably not too far off from other savory breads like olive bread.

I watched the video and I think the answer is 1971??? All I can think about is your “sunny side upped” egg lol. Ok, so what if you tried this recipe with canned salmon? I have some old family recipes, but nothing quite this crazy hehehehe. If I was drunk af I would probably eat this. Xoxo 😉

YES! I honestly think salmon would work WAYYY better than mackerel – in that, it would be more pallettable and lessssssss fishy! I was actually going to originally do that but then I told myself I need to NOT because that is NOT what this exact recipe calls for. But I wanna try with salmon and maybe even chicken one time!

Ahah this is seriously funny! Fish, garlic and onion?! I really hate all these 3 ingredients, as a plus I’m vegetarian… Maybe one day, if I will be so drunk to not remember my name… !!! Loved the idea of searching for old recipes, sounds so different!

That video was the best! I love the lunchbox. I post a lot of Weight Watchers recipes, too, though I can’t imagine trying very many from the 1970s. I feel like that was the worst decade for food. LOL I’m going to have to keep an eye out for your other recipes, for sure.

HA HA HA HA HA! You know what Sadie, I think you’re right?! I don’t recall anything GOOD and TASTY coming out of the 1970s… Ha! And this recipe is a PURE EXAMPLE of that! LOL!
(I have a recipes page on the blog, go check out my other recipes for sure!!)

As you know I don’t drink so I’ll have a bowl of Quisp cereal instead. I think I could sub beef jerky instead of fish ? You could pull off Barbara Eden no problem and Landon could be Major Nelson 🙂 that would be a funny skit. The golf course video was to much, my friend Laura told me a story where they found a woman walking and crying on the course, her husband left her behind.

OMG! WHAT?! Landon would NEVER EVER EVER do that to me – ever! He always has my best interest at heart. At point one, he said “get off and walk” and five seconds later he picked me up because, I mean, who can leave this behind? LOL!!
There will be many more Landon and GiGi skits in the near future – in fact, we are filming one (with two of our friends) this weekend!! It will be up this Tuesday or the following! I haven’t decided yet!

Mackerel is the first ocean fish I ever caught! My parents stuffed it.
Sorry to be away last week, Irma unplugged me 🙁
It has been really hard. The recovery and cleanup from the hurricane will take months or longer.
One good thing, I never have to wonder if I will be able to get enough exercise. with all the downed trees and stuff in the yard that needs to be gotten out of there.

I just have to tell you how totally adorable you are. I’ve seen several of your YouTube videos, and you are so fun! I’m not sure that I’d have the guts to try this recipe, but I certainly loved reading about it!

I’m usually open-minded to things (like food, for example-wink), but I do think I’d have to be hammered to try this! I have never partaken a Harvey Wallbanger. I’m more of a beer guy, wine or Crown and coke guy (no-no on the mixy mixy of all mentioned!). I will say it’s an interesting recipe. I mean, I do like fish, most notably sardines and kippers, but I’m on the fence with this! Bartender! Pour me a double!
Commenting for Ladonna Dennis Maxwell @momblogsociety.com.

OMG Roger, if you like sardines and kippers, YOU WOULD LIKE THIS!! You could even swap in the sardines for the mackerel!! But I mean, I am also NOT going to stop you if you need a drink before hand – LOL!

I don’t think I have ever heard of fish being cooked up into a puddling let alone something you’d eat as a dessert. That’s incredible and yet super simple to put together. I wonder what my guests will think at my next house party. Thanks for the recipe!

It’s tasty!!!!! it really is – hahahahaha! I mean, I definitely couldn’t eat the WHOLE PAN of it… But it was good enough for lunch that day!
And I think I am officially going to say FORK or FLUFF instead of the F word! 😉

What a lovely refreshing and light hearted post 🙂 Somewhere I have a similar recipe made with tuna which I even made once (for me who is not a great cook thats good!!) Not so long ago I came across some of my grandmothers good old Scots recipes from way back when. You have inspired me to hunt them down and try them out 🙂 Thank you

The Fluffy Mackerel Pudding recipe does sound awesome and I will have to make it for something different for the family. I haven’t had a dish like this in ages . This Harvey Wallbanger drink does sound interesting and I would indeed make this drink for after diner. Thanks for sharing the recipes.

Hmm….kind of reminds me of the time I made salmon cakes when a friend showed up for dinner. He said, “what’s for dinner?” I said, “salmon cakes”. He said, “salmon and cake – two words that should not be seen together.” We ended up going out to eat – LOL!

Well my dear, I know you love honesty so here I go. NOPE NOPE NOPE!! I mean, the smell alone would send me packing. Maybe a few glasses of wine in I MIGHT try it….or bottles. 😉 I love that you are revisiting old recipes. Need to do that myself.

I might not recommend folks taking this to work for their lunch though. Not that there’s anything wrong with the recipe, and I’m sure it would make a pretty fine lunch! No, you see I think the smell might put people off and you may loose friends.

You see a few months ago I made fish soup, took it to work and heated it up in the microwave. Result – I cleared the break room. I had the lunch area to myself. I was “Neil no mates” that day. ;-(

i’m a little scared of this, but i love the sauteed and sesame-y anchovies at korean restaurants and i’m not opposed to meatloaf-like things, so i’m also betting i’d like this. and i feel like it’d be worth making just to make everyone else around me try it (;

I am not sure if I will be willing to try this. lol! But you know, if someone will bake this for me, I am willing to try to taste it. The oldest recipe I know is from my grandma, passed to my mom and I am learning it. Love the giveaway!

I love your humor but there is no FORKING way I would eat this! My Grandmother passed down a recipe for Cow’s tongue and I thought that was bad! Guess what……… I would not FORKING eat that either. Not even 10 Harvey Wallbanger ‘s, a night out with a sober driver, and a night spooning my man would make me eat it! But your presentation was perfect! lol

OMG I DONT KNOW IF I WOULD DO TONGUE EITHER!! I might if no one actually told me what it was, but I can only think about what LIVER tastes like when I think of tongue and I HATEEEEEE LIVER! LOL! FORK NO! Just plain FORK NO! LOL!

If I had enough Harvey Wallbanger in me I may just give it a go. It kind of reminds me of something my Nan would have made and would have guilted us into eating it by saying something about rationing during the war and people starving in the world. Why are old people so good at getting their own way?

What would I put in my BOX???!!!! That’s private!! lol!!!!!!! I would probably try the picnic thing that you did, I will do it when the leaves change! Thank you for the WW inspired recipe! Sorry I am so late, crazy week! xoxo

Wow! Look at all these comments! Go you! I wanted you to know you’ve been an inspiration to me on Instagram. Sometimes I look at your posts in order to teach myself.
I figured this post would be about a mackerel. Cute headline though. Holy Mackerel!
Janice

I’ve never had a Harvey Wallbanger before and being a texture freak I’m not sure I could handle mackerel pudding! Definitely one of the most interesting recipes I’ve seen lately! Thanks for sharing at The Blogger’s Pit Stop! Roseann from http://www.thisautoimmunelife.com

Ah, yeah this requires a drink for sure. However, we do have a number of dishes that use fish for salads and hot dishes. I know this is not the most favorite ingredients for most Americans and Do have to say that I take pride in freaking people out with the herring salad

🙂 I am glad you enjoyed reading it June, and I appreciate you stopping by despite being Vegan! I just updated my blog with a recipe you might be able to get behind (subbing tofu for turkey)!! Hope you enjoy!

Oldest recipe??? Eh…. boiling an egg. Does that even count as a recipe? Well there i cooking involved so that has to right? Either way you’re a nut but I have to let the creeper in me out and say Vanessa is gorgeous like wowzers Egypt is getting a gem <3